Get Cricket World Cup Winners List. List of Cricket World Cup winners since 1975. Also catch the Cricket World Cup Winners Captains List. List of Cricket World Cup Winners from 1975 to 2015. Who Won the Last 50 Over World Cup? ICC World Cup Past Winners List.
ICC World Cup is the biggest Cricket Championship which occurs after 4 years intervals. The 1st ever world cup was held back in 1975 whereas ICC World Cup 2019 is the 12th successful edition of this cricket tournament.
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List of Cricket World Cup Winners
The 1st ever cricket world cup was held back in 1975 and that included 60 over innings for both sides whereas the final match of that tournament was played between West Indies vs Australia and Lord’s cricket ground hosted that match. After close encounter West Indies won that match by 17 runs and become the 1st World Cup Winner in the history of Cricket.
In 1979, the 2nd edition of World Cup was again hosted by England and against West Indies reached finals and faced England in the finals. History repeated again and West Indies won that match by 92 runs and become the World Cricket champion for the 2nd time in a row.
In 3rd edition, Indian cricket team re-write the history of World Cup and defeated two times World Champions West Indies in the finals and become the 1st Asian team to become the Cricket Champions in the history.
In 1987, the 4th edition of World Cup was held and this was the 1st time the hosting venue of the event was changed from England and India hosted that event. This time Australia defeated England in finals and become the champion for the 1st time.
ICC World Cup Past Winners List.
In 1992, Pakistan Cricket team under the captaincy of Imran Khan won the World Cup for the 1st time by defeating England in the finals by 22 runs. In 1996 Sri Lanka become the 3rd Asian team to win the World Cup by defeated Australia in the finals.
The World Cups of 1999, 2003, and 2007 was consecutively won by the Australian Cricket team and they were the only team who won the World Cup for the 5 times in the history whereas West Indies and India with 2 World Cup titles with their names are placed on 2nd place.
The last edition of World Cup was played in 2015 which was hosted by New Zealand and this team Australia repeat the history and defeated the host side in the finals by 7 wickets and picked up the World Cup title for the 5th time in the history.
List of Cricket World Cup Winners from 1975 to 2015
- World Cup 1975 won by West Indies
- World Cup 1979 won by West Indies
- World Cup 1983 won by India
- World Cup 1987 won by Australia
- World Cup 1992 won by Pakistan
- World Cup 1996 won by Sri Lanka
- World Cup 1999 won by Australia
- World Cup 2003 won by Australia
- World Cup 2007 won by Australia
- World Cup 2011 won by India
- World Cup 2015 won by Australia
Who Won the Last 50 Over World Cup?
The last edition of World Cup was played in 2015 which was hosted by New Zealand and this team Australia repeat the history and defeated the host side in the finals by 7 wickets and picked up the World Cup title for the 5th time in the history